Chinese people don't care about freedom, but they do care about justice.

Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?

I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy'—in Chinese or in English.

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

It’s not about what we do, or what we feel, it’s about what He did and what He felt. It’s about what Christ has done for us.

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.